Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 05:25:39 09/30/00
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On September 29, 2000 at 22:14:27, John Merlino wrote: >On September 29, 2000 at 22:05:52, Steve wrote: > >>Just one question: WHY does Chessmaster never resign? > >It's been as designed since the very first Chessmaster. The engine's opponents >are almost entirely humans (and the GUI is designed as such), and it was felt >that, since humans can always make mistakes, that each human should be forced to >complete the game and prove that he/she can checkmate the engine. Also, there is >much more satisfaction out of checkmating a computer than having it resign when >you're closing in for the kill. > >jm It would have made more sense (at least to me) to have resigning an option. You can set the value etc, lots of engines do that. And to the none computer chess literate, they may think of it as cheat code :) JW
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